Kasey Mullins raises a gay rights flag during a rally in support of the Colorado civil unions bill before it was heard by the House Judiciary Committee at the Capitol in Denver on Wednesday, March 31, 2011. Senate Bill 172 would have given same-sex couples many of the rights and responsibilities of marrage, but it failed 6-5 on a party-line vote.

Here are the names: Brian DelGrosso and B.J. Nikkel, both of Loveland. Bob Gardner, Mark Barker and Mark Waller, all of Colorado Springs. Jerry Sonnenberg of Sterling.

If history remembers them at all — which I doubt — they will be lumped together with those benighted souls who once voted against women’s suffrage or against anti-miscegenation laws. In this case, they voted against the rights of two people to form a committed relationship — one that has no impact on anyone else’s lives. This wasn’t gay marriage, against which one car argue that your religion and or/culture says that marriage should be between a woman and a man. It’s not an argument I accept, but it’s at least an argument.

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